Rapid changes in communication channels, tools, and conventions of interaction over the last two decades have paved the way for increasingly digital learning environments. In second language (L2) education, shifts toward digital learning and teaching were intensified during the pandemic and many… read more
Digital annotation tools (DATs) create digital spaces where two or more readers can highlight the same virtual copy of a text and discuss it through an interface that affords synchronous or asynchronous margin dialogues anchored in specific passages and allows students’ comments to include… read more
Over the last decade, the fields of applied linguistics and second language education have seen a renewed interest in socially oriented perspectives on second language (L2) learning and teaching (Dubreil & Thorne, 2017; Paesani, Allen, & Dupuy, 2016; Warner & Michelson, 2018). Similarly,… read more
In this chapter, we put forth an exploratory approach for using digital social reading (DSR) tools and activities to develop and implement performance-based assessments. We argue that by planning tasks for assessment purposes within an assessment for learning framework, second language (L2)… read more
This paper revisits the treatment of the expression of futurity in Spanish foreign language (FL) textbooks. We analyzed twenty college-level Spanish FL textbooks to determine and quantify how futurity is represented. Variationist research has shown the periphrastic future (PF) to be the most… read more
